Steve Fuller (born 1959, New York City) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, England, UK.
He is most closely associated with the research program of social epistemology. Originally trained in the history and philosophy of science (Ph.D., 1985, University of Pittsburgh), he is the founder of the research program of social epistemology. It is the name of a quarterly journal he founded with Taylor & Francis in 1987, as well as the first of his books: Social Epistemology (Indiana University Press, 1988), Philosophy of Science and Its Discontents, 2nd edn. (Guilford Press, 1993), Philosophy, Rhetoric and the End of Knowledge (University of Wisconsin Press, 1993), Science (Open University Press and University of Minnesota Press, 1997; translated into Japanese, 2000), The Governance of Science: Ideology and the Future of the Open Society (Open University Press, 2000), Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times (University of Chicago Press, 2000; Japanese translation in process). His latest book is Knowledge Management Foundations (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002).
Fuller has organized two global cyberconferences for the UK's Economic and Social Research Council: one on public understanding of science (1998), and another on peer review in the social sciences (1999). He has spoken in over 25 countries, often keynoting professional academic conferences, and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts since 1995. He sits on the advisory board of the Knowledge Management Consortium International and has sat on the Council of the Society for Social Studies of Science. He is currently working on three books: one on the Kuhn-Popper debate in the philosophy of science (Icon Books UK and Columbia University Press), one on the philosophical foundations of science and technology studies (Routledge), and one on the prospects for sociology in the 21st century (Sage).
Since coming to Warwick in 1999, he has supervised several Ph.D. students, taught on the Doctoral Training Programme and the MA in Social Research. He has been convenor of the MA in Philosophy and Social Theory. At the undergraduate level, he teaches the social theory of law, sociology of science and occasionally sociological imagination and investigation. He welcomes students working in the sociology of knowledge, history, philosophy and sociology of science, and normative issues relating to recent developments on the impact of science and technology on the political order.